The New Blackwell Companion to The City

About

Gary Bridge is Professor of Urban Studies at the School for Policy Studies University of Bristol. He is the author of Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism (2005) and co-editor of Gentrification in a Global Context (with Rowland Atkinson 2005) and The Blackwell City Reader second edition (with Sophie Watson Wiley-Blackwell 2010) and Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth? (with Tim Butler and Loretta Lees 2012).  Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She is the author of City Publics: The (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters (2006) co-author of Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium (1997) and co-editor of Postmodern Cities and Spaces (1995) Metropolis Now (1994) and The Blackwell City Reader second edition (with Gary Bridge Wiley-Blackwell 2010) among other publications.